Man with a movie camera to me is one of the most well composed video that i have seen so far. The Soviet directed by Dziga Vertov in 1929 is well know for its Avant-garde style, studying this particular piece during my a levels allowed me to appreciate the film along with the soundtracked. The Style that Vertove used endorsed him to experiment anyway possible which is strongly shown throughout his film. Random shots showing the comparison between a camera lens and a humans eye is portrayed very effectively, for most of the footage seen within the film meant that Vertov had to of gone through great risk to capture it and his method of doing so is ingenius considering the lack of technology that was accessible in those times.
"Man With a Movie Camera" is fascinating for many better reasons than its ASL, but let's begin with the point Dziga Vertof was trying to make. He felt film was locked into the tradition of stage plays, and it was time to discover a new style that was specifically cinematic. Movies could move with the speed of our minds when we are free-associating, or with the speed of a passionate musical composition. They did not need any dialogue--and indeed, at the opening of the film he pointed out that it had no scenario, no intertitles, and no characters. It was a series of images, and his notes specified a fast-moving musical score.
What really attracted me to this film was the thought process that Vertov put behind this masterpiece, Vertov thought process was, there was none. Each of his shots were shot individually, having no intention of developing or following a storyline. I find this random way of working similar to my own for it shows that not everything has to have a thought driven process for it to have a good outcome for there are times when one has to break the rules and do what you think is best to get the unsurpassed results needed.
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